RFR (M) : JDK-8004561 : Addition Functional Interfaces for Lambda Libraries

[Chris Hegarty]

On 02/19/2013 03:08 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 19/02/2013 14:39, Chris Hegarty wrote:
>> :
>>
>> Oh, please god no! I find the way the buffer classes are generated a
>> real pain. Yes, it is good for maintaining consistency across similar
>> versions, but I don't see that as a good justification to introduce
>> this complexity. I was secretly hoping that nio Buffer generation
>> would go away in jdk8.
> I assume the "pain" with the generated buffer classes is in the IDE so
> you need to remember to include the gensrc tree in the project.

Right, but this assumes you to have a build. They also don't play well 
with tools that index the source, like opengrok.

-Chris.

>
> -Alan.